{"id":123,"date":"2024-07-21T06:45:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T10:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickitysix.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2024-07-21T06:51:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T10:51:33","slug":"play-it-by-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"play it by ear?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>really good jam yesterday, despite y not being there.  things are slowly coming together, things are getting tighter, less mistakes being made.  j and m only took one 420 break and both were motivated to keep going.  i played my heart out as well&#8230;  i guess i have some demons i need to exercise or something (shocker, right?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i&#8217;m starting to believe in j&#8217;s plan that by next summer we&#8217;ll be able to play a show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the other day j said something as well which i thought was interesting.  both m and i play by ear.  we can&#8217;t read music.  heck, i can barely read tab and i don&#8217;t even think there is tab for drums.  j on the other hand relies 100% on tab.  so every song we learn, he needs to study and m and i just kind of fuck around until we get it.  because of this, j claimed we were superior musicians to him.  which is kind of funny, because j has always been one of my musical inspirations\/mentors\/idol.  i&#8217;ll take it as a compliment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>anyhow, towards the end of the jam, m pulls out a little thing he&#8217;s been fucking around with for a while and holy moly, i fucking love it!  pardon the potato recording quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/dickitysix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Untitled.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>little rough still, this was the very first time either j or i played along to it, so there is work to be done for sure.  but man oh man, this is something.  can&#8217;t wait until next weekend to flesh it out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>really good jam yesterday, despite y not being there. things are slowly coming together, things are getting tighter, less mistakes being made. j and m only took one 420 break and both were motivated to keep going. i played my heart out as well&#8230; i guess i have some demons i need to exercise or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=123\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">play it by ear?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happy","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}